Richard Lovelace: Quotes about love

Richard Lovelace was English writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Richard Lovelace: 32 quotes 0 likes

“Love, then unstinted, Love did sip,
And cherries plucked fresh from the lip”

Richard Lovelace

Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris (l. 13–18).
Context: Love, then unstinted, Love did sip,
And cherries plucked fresh from the lip;
On cheeks and roses free he fed;
Lasses like autumn plums did drop,
And lads indifferently did crop
A flower and a maidenhead.

Love

“I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.”

Richard Lovelace

To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 3.
Lucasta (1649)
Context: Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.

Love

“Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.”

Richard Lovelace

To Althea: From Prison, st. 4.
Lucasta (1649)

Love , Angels , Soul , Freedom

“Then Love, I beg, when next thou takest thy bow,
Thy angry shafts, and dost heart-chasing go,
Pass rascal deer, strike me the largest doe.”

Richard Lovelace

La Bella Bona Roba (l. 13–15).
Lucasta (1649)

Love , Heart

“Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.”

Richard Lovelace

To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 3.
Lucasta (1649)